The Charlatans have returned with ‘We Are Love’, the title track from their fourteenth studio album, out on 31 October via BMG. Described by frontman Tim Burgess as ‘like an open-top car ride in the credits of your favourite movie, driving along the coast to somewhere amazing’, the instantly infectious track finds the band in…
There’s always a bittersweet feeling on the final day of a festival, especially one as welcoming and glorious as 2000trees. On the one hand, you’re going to miss watching bands all day long but on the other, some time out of the sun – especially after a year as hot as 2025 – is most…
Following Kneecap’s triumphant headline set on the Thursday night of this year’s 2000trees (read our review here), there was no sign of anyone – or the weather – relenting or relaxing on the Friday. Mallavora kicked off proceedings on the Main Stage with one simple message: ‘We’re a band called Mallavora and we’re here to…
There are even more reasons to be excited about The Maccabees’ upcoming show at All Points East in Victoria Park, London on Sunday 24 August, 2025. Not only will you get to see the headliners and CMAT following their triumphant Glastonbury appearances, but now the Radio X Presents YALA! Records Stage has added even more…
Home Counties have shared ‘Humdrum’, the title track from their eagerly awaited second album, out on 24 October, 2025 via Submarine Cat Records. The record has been produced by Al Doyle from Hot Chip and LCD Soundsytem. The 3 and a half minute song finds the band worrying about saying the wrong thing – and…
Shame have shared new single ‘Quiet Life’ ahead of the release of new album ‘Cutthroat’ – an album ‘about the cowards, the cunts, the hypocrites. Let’s face it, there’s a lot of them around right now’ – on 5 September via Dead Oceans. ‘Quiet Life’ is a rockabilly punk song about someone who’s in a…
Trout has shared new single ‘Bone’, the artist’s first new material since her debut EP ‘Colourpicker’ in 2023. Written following a move from Liverpool to the south coast, the song finds Trout in reflective mode as she faces up to past mistakes and quietly yearns for a change -all against scuzzy, grungey guitars that fall…
Eve Adams has shared ‘Couldn’t Tell the Time’ ahead of the release of new album ‘American Dust’ on 22 August, 2025 via Basin Rock. Short and sweet, bright and breezy, the song features Oliver Hamilton from caroline on fiddle, it finds Eve ruminating on ‘the magic hour of life when you’re not quite sure if…
dog eyes, a Bay Area indie-folk duo made up of Hailey Firstman and Davis Leach, have shared the sublime ‘nano’ ahead of the release of new EP ‘blue bird rain cloud’ on 25 July via Grand Jury. Reminiscent of this year’s Great Grandpa album but mixed with the sensibilities of Loney, Dear and the gentle…
Idlewild – one of THE great British bands – have returned with ‘Stay Out of Place’, the first single to be taken from their forthcoming 10th (tenth!) album ‘Idlewild’. The record will be released on 3 October via V2 Records. Inspired by legendary American poet Walt Whitman’s view that we all contain multitudes and end…
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